Well, its bloody cold here in northern Ontario: -29 this morning, about
-40 with the windchill. So if it were a winter thing (the season, I
mean), I guess I could be convinced to picket in Texas for just about
anything.
Top Five hypothetical scenarios that would cause the Stata community to
collectively picket StataCorp headquarters:
5. StataCorp gets tired of the whining on Statalist and has the list
deep-sixed under the DMCA
4. Stata is gobbled into either the SPSS or SAS empires and becomes just
another add-on module with a yearly subscription
3. StataCorp decides that printed manuals are for weenies and technophobes
and decides to go exclusively PDF
2. StataCorp decides that command line is too old-school and "updates"
Stata into a fully menu-driven application (Do I feel the slope slipping
from under my feet?)
And the Number One act that would draw angry Stata users from all over the
world to College Station...
(drum roll, please)
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1. Bill Gould is replaced by that other Bill G as CEO of StataCorp
Additions to the list are welcome.
Lee
Lee Sieswerda, Epidemiologist
Thunder Bay District Health Unit
999 Balmoral Street
Thunder Bay, Ontario
Canada P7B 6E7
Tel: +1 (807) 625-5957
Fax: +1 (807) 623-2369
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